Up and Down Wall Street

You Call This a Crisis?

The impact of not being able to trade stocks on Nasdaq pales against lots of other things.

One would assume it was over an event on the scale of the deaths of more than 100,000 in Syria, some from attacks with chemical weapons, or the bloody clashes in Egypt. "What is happening now in the Middle East is the most important event so far of the 21st century, even compared to the financial crisis we have been through and its impact on world affairs," William Hague, the U.K....